Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: blackcondor105 on July 02, 2008, 05:48:28 PM
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hey i was always woundering why did the animorphs tv show end. was it canceled or was it just poorly funded, does anyone know what happend to the show
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It was canceled. I believe it was because of ratings and not very good fan perception, but I may be wrong.
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I can't imagine why they could possibly have had reason to cancel such a terrible show. ::)
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yeah idk why people didnt like it ;]
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Actually this one is my fault:
See, after sitting through the first season I gathered my things and when on a mission. Once I got to my destination I destroyed the shows' effects machines, freed the animals and warned the people in charge that if this afront to Animorphs was not stopped, well, bad things would happen.
To this day I'm hard pressed to say I ever met a fan of the show in real life. Shows without fans get dropped. And in this case, I don't complain
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i heard that they culdent do a big finnishing last episode like the book for the show becuase it would have cost to much and i doubt the would if shown racheal killed on nikelodean
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Once I got to my destination I destroyed the shows' effects machines, freed the animals.
Was it hard destroying an old apple lisa, some old halloween masks, and incorrect animal species?
I mean come on the show was just horrible. I loved it when I was younger, but even then I saw problems. The controls for a Yeerk Blade ship were comprised of a mixing board.
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well it started off with not enough funding. so the show was terrible. it lost fans...and then I don't know what.
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i heard that they culdent do a big finnishing last episode like the book for the show becuase it would have cost to much and i doubt the would if shown racheal killed on nikelodean
There was honestly no way they were going to get that far. The fans of the books who became the fans of the show were really obviously disappointed. they show didn't have very good ratings, which caused it to be pulled off the air.
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Yeah. And I also read somewhere that they thought the plot was a little too dark, lol. Yeah, but the show sucked. I kind of wish they would make a movie. A really good movie, with really good actors and special effects and a director who actually bothered to read the books.
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the thing is...how many movies would it take?
Yeah, the darkness of the plot was most likely a factor. For some reason, Nick and Disney Channel decided to pull everything good off the air just cuz they weren't kiddie enough.
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I still liked it for a while but I encountered it before the series. Now watching it is like watching Plan 9 from Outer Space. Watching the mistakes is great. Just someone please tell me where on earth they got some of these plot lines from. Where the hell is the disk from? I get its Elfangor's Hirac Delest but why make that up? There was so much junk they put in there. The worst sometimes was the puppets. If you really go through the show bit by bit there are so many mistakes that can be found. Not just story, but technical mistakes. One of my favorites is that when Jake acquires a tiger his hand reaches from the right but the camera shows the hand on the tiger coming from the left. The Hawk that is Tobias not only has the hawking straps on its feet, but is the wrong species of Hawk altogether. K.A. even says she only watched about 2 episodes. She hoped it would have been animated.
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Yeah, the darkness of the plot was most likely a factor. For some reason, Nick and Disney Channel decided to pull everything good off the air just cuz they weren't kiddie enough.
Which is completely stupid, because now they have TV shows with young teens making out. For kids.
I would see the Animorphs movie. I mean, they could do just one for The Invasion. Then there's a problem, though. All of the people who liked it would be saying, "Hey, when's the next one coming out?"
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Yeah. I loved all those cool shows on Disney and the classic offensive Nice shows were great.
There's no way they could do just one for the Invasion without having to continue. They could probably do like two books per movie. But that'd still include a lot of movies.
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maybe they could make a movie out of one of the chronicles...nah. then it'd make no sense to be titled animorphs...would it?
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If they make a movie out of one of the chronicles, it wouldn't make much sense to be titled Animorphs, no. And, then, every Animorphs fan who sees it would be begging for an actual Animorphs film.
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Was it hard destroying an old apple lisa, some old halloween masks, and incorrect animal species?
No. No it was notwell it started off with not enough funding. so the show was terrible.
And again I must but my standard Ani-TV arguement.
We say the budget was poor, where do we get that idea; WHAT WAS THE BUDGET?!
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And again I must but my standard Ani-TV arguement.
We say the budget was poor, where do we get that idea; WHAT WAS THE BUDGET?!
$2?
I think we have definitely established that the budget was low...We just don't have a real number.
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No, it had to have been at least 3. :P
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Haha...Right.
I just honestly wish that this show could've done better. It would've been fun to have a GOOD Animorphs show.
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Was it hard destroying an old apple lisa, some old halloween masks, and incorrect animal species?
No. No it was notwell it started off with not enough funding. so the show was terrible.
And again I must but my standard Ani-TV arguement.
We say the budget was poor, where do we get that idea; WHAT WAS THE BUDGET?!
There aren't a whole lot of shows that actually say how much their budget really is, unless they're comfortable with doing so. A regular Buffy episode used to cost around $1 Million, I think (but I'm sure that changed once the show got more popular).
For Animorphs, I'd guess that it was a 5 figure amount per episode. Green screen, morphing effects, props, costumes, animals (and their trainers), the actors, the crew, the equipment, the locations & sets -- the cost for all of these things add up quite fast. For the amount of corners they would've had to cut in order to make show with what they had, I think the people involved with the show did a pretty damn good job.
I know everyone hates the show because it still didn't meet our expectations, but I honestly doubt that it was the fault of either the writers or the production crew involved in making the show. If you look at the stories and the way they tried to fit everything with what they could do, you'll notice that they actually did try to make an effort into making the best of what they could. If funding wasn't such a problem, I think they could've made the show much much better.
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The show got canceled because it was terrible, the Yeerks looked different every episode(First they looked real, then they were actual slugs, then they leeches.), The Andalites were....scary looking, Rachel only used her grizzly morph once, her regular battle morph was lion, Marco's was a wolf, and Cassie didn't have one, I didn't really mind Jake's battle morph cuz it was still a tiger just a different color. It was so terrible that the dude playing Tobias was about to quit but then the show got canceled so he didn't have to. They should've just given up when they realized how much the budget was and waited to get more funding and switch to another channel.
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Ug, that show. I heard it was cancelled because hard core book fans were up in arms about it. Can't blame them. Back in middle school when it was on I thought it was ok. Saw the first episode at a friend's house and my grandmother taped it for me. Watched them again near the end of high school and I was like, "Ew, what the..."
All I can say about that show is good riddance. I got so annoyed the way the later show plots strayed from the books. What was up with the disk? That was the main one that got on my nerves royally.
Thoughts that passed through my head:
* "I hope Ax had a good tutor in the manly Andalite art of arm wrestling."
* "Oh no! They are being attacked by Visser McMuppet!"
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Oh man, I still have that image of Ax and Visser Three arm wrestling to death burned into my brain.
Forever.
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What was up with the disk? That was the main one that got on my nerves royally.
That disc that Elfangor was trying to give to Tobias was his Hirac Delest.
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They probably made it a disk on the off chance that they could use it as merchandising. Yes, buy the disk that represents all of Elfangor's memories...nahhh, just give 'em another fakey Transformer...
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I thought the disk having the Yeerk DNA was funny...Well, mostly when Rachel went into Tobias' head.
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LOL I must've missed that one...or I passed out from apathy...
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Yeah, I know how the disc was SUPPOSED to fit into the plot for the show. I was just annoyed that they threw that random element in there. The whole Vader-esque "I am your father" thing.
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It really should have been animated. Even Katherine Applegate thought so.
I think I missed the arm wrestling episode, but what made anyone think an ARM wrestling match between Andalites would be a good idea?
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he didn't. if he said that it was probably sarcasm.
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Oh, well I don't know if it was meant to be sarcasm. I got that info second hand.
However, I still believe it should have been animated. Might have turned out better.
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I'm pretty sure the arm wrestling was the end result of the special effects people going..."you want us to make them attack with their TAILS?...well, get out the broomsticks..." o.O;
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i remember how obsessed i was with the show when i was young, even though i hated how they changed so much lol. i remember i would watch every episode when it first aired and then every time they would do a rerun. and i would get so upset if i turned the channel and saw i missed one of the reruns lol...so pathetic lol
and the movie talk...i always pictured something like The Invasion and The Message put together. i considered books 2 and 3 to be mostly filler. but i think combining 1 and 4 would work cause it would give the introduction stuff that the first book did and by combining it with The Message, we would be able to introduce Ax in the first movie...so we would have all the animorphs introduced in the first film
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actually, ax originally was to be introduced in book 2. but K.A. changed her mind when she realized animorphs would be a long-running series.
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and the movie talk...i always pictured something like The Invasion and The Message put together. i considered books 2 and 3 to be mostly filler. but i think combining 1 and 4 would work cause it would give the introduction stuff that the first book did and by combining it with The Message, we would be able to introduce Ax in the first movie...so we would have all the animorphs introduced in the first film
3 was actually kind of important to Tobias' character, but it did seem like #2 was a filler book. It would be good if Ax was introduced in the first movie, though.
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and the movie talk...i always pictured something like The Invasion and The Message put together. i considered books 2 and 3 to be mostly filler. but i think combining 1 and 4 would work cause it would give the introduction stuff that the first book did and by combining it with The Message, we would be able to introduce Ax in the first movie...so we would have all the animorphs introduced in the first film
3 was actually kind of important to Tobias' character
yea but Im pretty sure it's one of those books where if it didn't exist, there wouldn't be any significant changes to the rest of the books(aka filler)
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Well, not really, I think the hawk vs. human debate would confuse us if we just skipped to number 13. Plus, I dont think we'd like Tobias much if we didn't see this self battle in him. :)
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I never really liked any of the books narrated by Tobias anyway :P :-\(except the one where the Yeerks find out the "Andalite Bandits" aren't really Andalites.)
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Well, not really, I think the hawk vs. human debate would confuse us if we just skipped to number 13. Plus, I dont think we'd like Tobias much if we didn't see this self battle in him. :)
Yeah, that's what I thought.
I don't think Tobias' books are that bad. They kind of just...almost the same thing, I guess. But, mostly the Tobias books are important to his character.
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the Tobias books were boring especially book 3
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I liked the part where Bird-boy goes to the ball... or prom.... Also the part with Elfangor touched my heart. I dunno, I'm not a bird-human or a son of an Andalite hero, but being a loner, the "hawk" in my group of friends in the lone sky, I kinda relate to him.
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I would LOVE to see a movie for Animorphs. Not really based off any specific storyline in the books, just based off the books in general. Kind of like how the original Power Rangers movie didn't have anything to do in the timeline of the series, nor was it based on any specific plotline from the series, or like any of the recent superhero movies aren't based on any specific plots from the comics, just off the general ideas.
With today's effects and larger-budgets, and the rise in Superhero movies, they could easily do a 2 and a half hour long Animorphs movie that caters to both kids and adults alike that could be truly epic.
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Didn't you hear? Visser Three was so insulted by how he was portrayed in the show that he burned down the Director's house, and obliterated the tapes at Nick Studios. He didn't know that they released VHS tapes.